versicode

versi- — from Latin vertere, to turn, to change, to transform. The root of versatile, version, and verse.
e.g. versicolor: of various or turning colors.

-code — from Latin codex, originally a wooden tablet, now the language of machines.

versicode was never planned. It emerged from a search for a name for an entirely different project — one etymology led to another, one root to the next, and a personal site quietly came into being along the way.

"versicolor" was a Latin binomial I discovered in a forest — on the underside of a fallen log, where Trametes versicolor grows in overlapping fans of rust, cream, grey, and blue-green. It appears wherever nature needs to describe something that refuses to be identified by a single colour.

It seemed like the right name for a site that holds projects that also refuse a single category. That pull toward roots — toward taking a word apart to find what's living inside it — is probably the most honest thing about versicode.